Who we are
The Humanities Education Centre (HEC), the Global Learning Centre for London, promotes the values, aims and principles of development education and global citizenship through all areas of education.
HEC is part of Local4Global, the Department for International Development Enabling Effective Support regional strategy. HEC is also part of a wider network of Development Education Centres (DECs), which are also involved in promoting the global dimension, and is an active member of the Development Education Association (DEA).
Our Aims are:
To provide opportunities for schools to raise standards through curriculum enrichment and giving young people a voice.
To promote a global perspective and understanding of sustainable development in the context of an interdependent system of lands and people.
To engender an appreciation and celebration of the richness of cultural diversity in our, and other communities.
To maintain and develop the resources to support curriculum development and provide in-service training and advice to teachers.
To raise awareness among young people of the causes of injustice and inequality in a local, national and international context and to instil an understanding and empathy for oppressed peoples.
HEC works in four main areas:
We have a resource centre with a wide range of resources for primary and secondary schools and we work closely with Tower Hamlets Schools Library Service.
We provide training and advice on a range of global development and sustainability issues for students, teachers and other educationalists.
Our publications include Bangladeshi Children in our schools; Storyworlds; We live in the East End; the big book Play on the Line and the board game Locococo.
We work on a range of global education projects with young people, schools, Local Authorities, Initial Teacher Education institutions, Development NGOs and other organisations.
Websites:
East End Talking
For primary pupils to create and present their work to share with other children and to learn about being active young citizens.
Global Footprints
Ideas and activities aimed at empowering all participants, but particularly the young, to take steps towards a more sustainable future.
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